Sadness Quotes:

It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another.

- A. N. Wilson

topic: Sadness, People, Joy, Joy And Sadness

In my opinion, everybody has the same soul from God and we are united by that. Outside, our bodies are different, our faces are different, but inside we are all the same, we share the same feelings of sadness, love, pain My music comes out of these feelings. Whether it is Japanese music, African, Qawalli, or any other form of music, if it touches your heart it becomes important for me.

- A. R. Rahman

topic: Pain, Sadness, Heart, Love Pain

When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.

- A. Scott Berg

topic: Sadness, Son, Men, Wilson

What is "this drive"? It's the tendency to not simply accept things as they are but to want to think about them, to understand them. To not be content to simply feel sad but to ask what sadness means. To not just get a bus pass but to think about the economic reasons getting a bus pass makes sense. I call this tendency the intellectual.

- Aaron Swartz

source: Aaron Swartz (2016). “The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz”, p.344, The New Press

topic: Sadness, Mean, Thinking, Relatable

Whatever you resist you become. If you resist anger, you are always angry. If you resist sadness, you are always sad. If you resist suffering, you are always suffering. If you resist confusion,you are always confused. We think that we resist certain states because they are there, but actually they are there because we resist them.

- Adyashanti

topic: Confused, Sadness, Thinking, Resisting

a joy that hurts with sadness a sadness that is pleasurable a pleasure full of terror a terror that excites an excitement that calms a calmness that frightens.

- Aidan Chambers

topic: Hurt, Sadness, Joy

It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It's the mathematical logic of being alive. If everything kept to its normal progression, we would live with the sadness-cry and then walk-but what really breaks us cleanest are the losses that happen out of order.

- Aimee Bender

topic: Life, Sadness, Loss

Sadness doesn't equal weakness, sweetheart. If anything, it shows the love you have inside of you, and nothing stronger in this world exists.

- Aimee Carter

topic: Love You, Sadness, Stronger

You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages.

- Al Stewart

topic: Sadness, Hands, All Alone

You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.

- Al Yankovic

topic: Healing, Heart, Sadness

The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness".

- Alain de Botton

topic: Sadness, Worry, Personality

It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad...

- Alain de Botton

topic: Book, Sadness, Console

Some say it is best not to go near the center of time. Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble to live life and without time there is no life. Others disagree. They would rather have an eternity of contentment, even if that eternity were fixed and frozen, like a butterfly mounted in a case.

- Alan Lightman

source: Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.47, Vintage

topic: Live Life, Butterfly, Sadness, Like A Butterfly

Thoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain. Sexual arousal is no more than a flow of chemicals to certain nerve endings. Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum. In short, the body is a machine, subject to the same laws of electricity and mechanics as an electron or clock.

- Alan Lightman

topic: Sadness, Law, Brain, Arousal, Electrical

Tears are often a gift from God, and sadness is a healthy emotion.

- Alan Loy McGinnis

topic: Sadness, Healthy, Tears

We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.

- Alanis Morissette

source: Energy Times interview, www.energytimes.com. July-August 2013.

topic: Anger, Inspiration, Sadness, Happiness And Sadness, Happiness Sadness

I have as much rage as you have, I have as much pain as you do, I've lived as much hell as you have, and I've kept mine bubbling under for you.

- Alanis Morissette

topic: Pain, Sadness, Hell

I'm consumed by the chill of solitary.

- Alanis Morissette

topic: Sadness, Chill, Solitary

I'm sad, but I'm laughing.

- Alanis Morissette

topic: Sadness, Laughing, I'm Sad

It would be my greatest sadness to see Zionists (Jews) do to Palestinian Arabs much of what Nazis did to Jews.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Sadness, Would Be, Nazi, Zionism

My country's main exports are stolen cars and sadness.

- Aleksandar Hemon

topic: Country, Sadness, Car

I spotted a can in the corner whose red label read SADNESS. Was there so much of it they could can it and sell it? A bolt of pain went through my intestines before I realized that it was not SADNESS but SARDINES.

- Aleksandar Hemon

topic: Pain, Sadness, Labels, Sardines, Intestines

A tender sadness drops upon my soul, like the soft twilight dropping on the world.

- Alexander Smith

topic: Twilight, Sadness, Soul

He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

- Alexandre Dumas

topic: Happiness, Grief, Sadness

Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? — why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections — an idea which carries you back to other times, to other places — which, very likely, have no connection with the present time and place.

- Alexandre Dumas

topic: Sadness, Ideas, Connections, Present Time

There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.

- Alfred de Musset

topic: Sadness, Sorrow, Remember, Sorrow And Happiness, Sad Life

First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn't so great

- Alyssa Milano

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Sadness, Winning, Firsts

Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Lying, Sadness, People

Tess realized one of the great modern dating sadnesses: everyone is so used to the comforting glow of the computer screen that no one can go so far as to say "good morning" in public without being liquored up.

- Amelia Gray

topic: Morning, Sadness, Dating, Computer Screen, Tess

I cry alot-I dont know why, but it just helps me. I cry over bad and good stuff-sometimes sadness can be beautiful

- Amy Lee

topic: Beautiful, Sadness, Stuff

I don't go on the Internet. I never go on the Internet. I don't go on Twitter. I'm not on Facebook. I've seen friends go into dark, dark holes of sadness because of that. Frankly, I don't have the time or the attention span for it.

- Amy Sherman-Palladino

topic: Sadness, Dark, Attention

Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.

- Andre Gide

topic: Beautiful, Sadness, Discovery

Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.

- Andre Gide

topic: Sadness, Self Pity, Misery, Sadness Of Life

As a Vietnamese refugee who became an American writer, I can tell you that you matter, that your sadness matters, the story of how you survived and triumphed matters. For every story that belongs to you, in time, belongs to America.

- Andrew Lam

source: Andrew Lam (2010). “East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres”, p.133, Heyday

topic: Sadness, America, Stories, American Writer, Vietnamese

Here was a thing that would grow old; here was a thing that would turn beautiful and lose that beauty, that would inherit the grace but also the bad ear and flawed figure of her mother, that would smile too much and squint too often and spend the last decades of her life creaming away the wrinkles made in youth until she finally gave up and wore a collar of pears to hide a wattle; here was the ordinary sadness of the world.

- Andrew Sean Greer

source: Andrew Sean Greer (2007). “The Confessions of Max Tivoli: A Novel”, p.71, Macmillan

topic: Beautiful, Mother, Sadness

I have met people that said when their friend was dying, they made them promise that their funeral would be a party without people sitting in silence and in sadness. They want to celebrate their life and the life they lived and I try to adhere to that more.

- Andrew W.K.

topic: Party, Sadness, People, Sitting In Silence

I had sadness for breakfast.

- Andy Milonakis

source: "The Andy Milonakis Show". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2005 - 2007.

topic: Sadness, Breakfast

Even the favorite reviews, the audience response is the movie is too slow, deliberately slow. But for the Chinese audience, the biggest complaint is it happens too quick. I think the historical background that build into our genes is different. American people has never been occupied. The deep sadness and sentimentality, the cultural background that relates to melodrama that we relate to and grow up with, the propaganda, I didn't imagine the difference is so big. It's a very interesting cultural phenomenon.

- Ang Lee

topic: Growing Up, Sadness, Thinking, Deep Sadness

I know my mind is made of matter but I need to know exactly what is the matter at it's core? Because my heart is just a muscle and simply put, it's sore.

- Ani DiFranco

source: Song: Rain Check, Album: Educated Guess, 2004

topic: Heart, Sadness, Mind

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

- Anita Brookner

topic: Love, Happiness, Sadness, Romanticism

She must have sensed she never really had him. That was a sadness of hers, he knew.

- Ann Brashares

topic: Sadness

I think you have to deal with grief in the sense that you have to recognize that you have it, and say that it's OK to have all the sadness.

- Ann Richards

topic: Grief, Sadness, Thinking

Not, not mine: it's somebody else's wound; I could never have borne it. So take the thing that happened, hide it, stick it in the ground; whisk the lamps away.

- Anna Akhmatova

topic: Sadness, Sticks, Lamps, Whisk

It's funny how the world works, how we win and lose, how we can never really know what's ahead though we never stop planning. How we survive and move on. There's a sadness that comes with survival, but also more joy to be had.

- Anna McPartlin

source: Anna McPartlin (2008). “Pack Up the Moon”, p.287, Simon and Schuster

topic: Moving, Sadness, Winning

Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.

- Anne Carson

topic: Writing, Sadness, Night

Don't get hung up on a snag in the stream, my dear. Snags alone are not so dangerous-it's the debris that clings to them that makes the trouble. Pull yourself loose and go on.

- Anne Monroe

topic: Sadness, Goes On, Trouble

Forsythia is pure joy. There is not an ounce, not a glimmer of sadness or even knowledge in forsythia. Pure, undiluted, untouched joy.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

topic: Spring, Sadness, Joy, Pure Joy, Flowers And Gardens

All that sadness. All that anger. It is the smoke that gets into your eyes. If you do not blow it away, how can you hope to see?

- Anthony Horowitz

source: Anthony Horowitz (2013). “Russian Roulette: The Story of an Assassin”, p.126, Penguin

topic: Sadness, Eye, Blow

How often is immense sadness mistaken for courage?

- Anthony Marra

topic: Sadness, Mistaken

In our culture I think most people think of grief as sadness, and that's certainly part of it, a large part of it, but there's also this thorniness, these edges that come out.

- Anthony Rapp

source: "From musical to memoir, actor Anthony Rapp comes up with dramatic making-of 'Rent' story and moving personal one" by David Wiegand, www.sfgate.com. February 21, 2006.

topic: Grief, Sadness, Thinking

It is such a secret place, the land of tears.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

topic: Broken Heart, Sadness, Hard Times, Cry Tears, Secret Places

It is an unfortunate personal tragedy. However, when compared to the vast ocean of the collective tragedy faced by my people, my illness is merely a pebble. I am deeply sad that I am crippled by this illness, unable to contribute anything substantial towards the alleviation of the immense suffering and oppression of my people.

- Anton Balasingham

topic: Ocean, Sadness, People, Personal Tragedy, Vast Ocean

When you experience the emotion of sadness, there will be changes in facial expression, and your body will be closed in, withdrawn. There are also changes in your heart, your guts: they slow down. And there are hormonal changes.

- Antonio Damasio

topic: Heart, Sadness, Expression

My philosophy is fundamentally sad, but I'm not a sad man, and I don't believe I sadden anyone else.

- Antonio Machado

topic: Philosophy, Believe, Sadness, Fountain Of Youth, Bathing

If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.

- Art Buchwald

topic: Sadness, Yesterday, Today

Sadness was a very heavy thing.

- Arthur Golden

topic: Sadness, Heavy, Memories Of A Geisha, Heavy Things

No one lives on the top of the mountain. It's fine to go there occasionally -for inspiration, for new perspectives. But you have to come down. Life is lived in the valleys. That's where the farms and gardens and orchards are, and where the plowing and the work is done. That's where you apply the visions you may have glimpsed from the peaks.

- Arthur Gordon Webster

topic: Inspiration, Sadness, Garden, Plowing, Orchard

I watched them from the window, thy children at their play, And I thought of all my own dear friends, who were far, oh, far away, And childish loves, and childish cares, and a child's own buoyant gladness Came gushing back again to me with a soft and solemn sadness; And feelings frozen up full long, and thoughts of long ago, Seemed to be thawing at my heart with a warm and sudden flow.

- Arthur Hugh Clough

source: Arthur Hugh Clough (1951). “Poems”, Oxford University Press

topic: Children, Heart, Sadness, Thawing

Vegas means comedy, tragedy, happiness and sadness all at the same time.

- Artie Lange

topic: Sadness, Mean, Las Vegas, Happiness And Sadness

My sadness is beautiful. It infuses everything I do. It is at the core of my identity and has always been, just as happiness is in some people. I refuse to hold that as a flaw. I will not mute it with medications for the sake of society. I will hold it close to me and celebrate it rightfully while the rest of the world fails to see it for what it is, and it will be their loss.

- Ashly Lorenzana

topic: Beautiful, Sadness, Loss

The parts of me that hurt the worst want me to write something for them, but I can't. I don't know what to say. I'm lost in all this sadness, and so are they.

- Ashly Lorenzana

topic: Hurt, Writing, Sadness

If I have brightened up one single sad childhood, then I have at least accomplished something in my life.

- Astrid Lindgren

source: Astrid Lindgren's acceptance speech for The Right Livelihood Award, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 1994.

topic: Sadness, Childhood, Accomplished

So that's what I'm here to become. And suddenly, this word fills me with a brand of sadness I haven't felt since childhood. The kind of sadness you feel at the end of summer. When the fireflies are gone, the ponds have dried up and the plants are wilted, weary from being so green.

- Augusten Burroughs

topic: Summer, Sadness, Firefly, End Of Summer

I think women should be seductive, not triste. Theres enough sadness in life now without making women look sad, too.

- Azzedine Alaia

topic: Sadness, Thinking, Seductive

There's a sadness to all kinds of music if you want to hear it. There's also happiness to it if you want to hear it.

- B. B. King

topic: Sadness, Want, Kind

The blues he sends to meet me, won't defeat me. It won't be long til happiness steps up to greet me.

- B. J. Thomas

topic: Sadness, Long, Steps

It was so gorgeous it almost felt like sadness.

- Banana Yoshimoto

source: Banana Yoshimoto (2011). “The Lake”, p.131, Melville House

topic: Sadness, Gorgeous

There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.

- Barbara Kingsolver

topic: Depression, Cancer, Sadness, Depressed Person, Being Depressed

Even though sometimes you can control your anger, you can't control your sadness.

- Barbara Park

source: Barbara Park (2011). “The Kid in the Red Jacket”, p.14, Yearling

topic: Sadness, Sometimes

The cure for sorrow is to learn something.

- Barbara Sher

source: Barbara Sher (2010). “I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It”, p.139, Dell

topic: Sadness, Sorrow, Cures

The sound of distant breakers made her heart ache with melancholy. She was in the mood when the sea has a saddening effect upon the nerves. It is only when we are very happy that we can bear to gaze merrily upon the vast and limitless expanse of water, rolling on and on with such persistent, irritating monotony to the accompaniment of our thoughts, whether grave or gay. When they are gay, the waves echo their gaiety; but when they are sad, then every breaker, as it rolls, seems to bring additional sadness and to speak to us of hopelessness and of the pettiness of all our joys.

- Baroness Orczy

source: Baroness Orczy (2013). “The Scarlet Pimpernel”, p.151, House of Stratus

topic: Heart, Sadness, Gay, Monotony, Pettiness

I shall return, doubt it not. Such love as ours was not created to remain unfulfilled. Whatever may happen, believe and trust in me, as I shall in you, and keep the remembrance of me in your heart without sadness and without regret.

- Baroness Orczy

source: Baroness Orczy (2011). “The First Sir Percy”, p.80, House of Stratus

topic: Regret, Believe, Sadness

The weariest night, the longest day, sooner or later must perforce come to an end.

- Baroness Orczy

source: Baroness Orczy (2015). “The Scarlet Pimpernel”, p.159, Xist Publishing

topic: Sadness, Night, Ends

When they are gay, the waves echo their gaiety; but when they are sad, then every breaker, as it rolls, seems to bring additional sadness, and to speak to us of hopelessness and of the pettiness of all our joys.

- Baroness Orczy

topic: Sadness, Gay, Echoes

The trouble with boxing is that too often it ends in sadness.

- Barry McGuigan

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Sadness, Boxing, Trouble

Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.

- Basil Hume

source: Basil Hume (2001). “Cardinal Hume: A Spiritual Companion : Reflections Through the Year”, Paraclete Press (MA)

topic: Sadness, Suffering, Sorrow

Comedy doesn't really have any meaning without sadness … The most meaningful comedy comes from some really serious pathos.

- Becky Stark

source: "Lavender Diamond Seeks World Peace". Interview with Jake Coyle, usatoday30.usatoday.com. April 27, 2007.

topic: Meaningful, Sadness, Serious

They say time will make all this go away. But it's time that has taken my tomorrows and turned them into yesterdays.

- Ben Harper

topic: Taken, Sadness, Yesterday

Looking for happiness is a sure way to sadness, I think. You have to take each moment as it comes.

- Benedict Cumberbatch

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Sadness, Thinking, Way

Among the numerous luxuries of the table...coffee may be considered as one of the most valuable. It excites cheerfulness without intoxication; and the pleasing flow of spirits which it occasions...is never followed by sadness, languor or debility.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Coffee, Sadness, Luxury, Intoxication, Drinking Coffee

A light wind blew through here that carried with it scents of sadness and loss, not recognizable odors but smells that corresponded to nothing, chimerical fragrances able to evoke melancholic memories.

- Bentley Little

topic: Memories, Sadness, Loss

Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.

- Bernard Malamud

topic: Wine, Sadness, Tragedy

Is this what sadness is all about? Is it what comes over us when beautiful memories shatter in hindsight because the remembered happiness fed not just on actual circumstances but on a promise that was not kept?

- Bernhard Schlink

source: Bernhard Schlink (2011). “The Reader”, p.25, Hachette UK

topic: Beautiful, Memories, Sadness, Beautiful Memories

I never thought that alcohol could ease the notion of the sadness, Now what used to be a happy home done turned into some bad sh!t

- Big Boi

topic: Sadness, Home, Alcohol, Happy Home

We, all of us in the First World, have participated in something of a binge, a half century of unbelievable prosperity and ease. We may have had some intuition that it was a binge and the earth couldn't support it, but aside from the easy things (biodegradable detergent, slightly smaller cars) we didn't do much. We didn't turn our lives around to prevent it. Our sadness is almost an aesthetic response - appropriate because we have marred a great, mad, profligate work of art, taken a hammer to the most perfectly proportioned of sculptures.

- Bill McKibben

topic: Art, Taken, Sadness, Biodegradable

Ain't no sunshine when she's gone, only darkness every day.

- Bill Withers

source: Song: Ain't No Sunshine, Album: Just As I Am, 1971

topic: Sadness, Sunshine, Darkness

Forced to recognize our inhumanity, our reason coexists with our insanity. And though we choose between reality and madness, it's either sadness or euphoria.

- Billy Joel

topic: Philosophy, Sadness, Reality, Coexist

They say that these are not the best of times, but they're the only times I've ever known. And I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own. Now I have seen that sad surrender in my lovers eyes...and I can only stand apart and sympathize...for we are only what our situations hand us...it's either sadness or euphoria...

- Billy Joel

topic: Believe, Sadness, Eye, Lovers Eyes

The only thing which consoles for our miseries is diversion, and yet this is the greatest of our miseries. For it is this which principally hinders us from reflecting upon ourselves and which makes us imperceptibly ruin ourselves.

- Blaise Pascal

topic: Sadness, Ruins, Misery, Diversion, Reflecting Upon

Without [diversion] we would be in a state of weariness, and this weariness would spur us on to seek a more solid means of escaping from it. But diversion amuses us, and leads us unconsciously to death.

- Blaise Pascal

topic: Death, Sadness, Mean, Diversion

There is nothing so insupportable to man as to be in entire repose, without passion, occupation, amusement, or application. Then it is that he feels his own nothingness, isolation, insignificance, dependent nature, powerless, emptiness. Immediately there issue from his soul ennui, sadness, chagrin, vexation, despair.

- Blaise Pascal

topic: Sadness, Passion, Men, Chagrin, Insignificance

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

- Blaise Pascal

topic: Taken, Ignorance, Sadness

Whenever you feel a negative emotion be alone in a room and just sit down with it and feel. Don't judge it, criticize it, intellectualize it, explain it away. Allow yourself to feel the pain. It's okay. Accompany it - breathe into it - and after a while, you'll feel the anger or fear or sadness lose it's urgency and power. Allow God to tenderly embrace you in your pain. And then, at the right time, you can let go.

- Bo Sanchez

topic: Letting Go, Pain, Sadness, Accompany

A part of my appreciation for the good which moments bring has come from awareness and recognition. But it has also come from a correspnding sadness which arises from their passing. When something that can never quite be reenacted comes to an end (and all moments are that way), I feel a pensiveness within. This pensiveness gives my life a quality that might be best described as bittersweet. And those moments take on double meaning and richness - because they are here now - and because they will not always be.

- Bob Benson

topic: Appreciation, Sadness, Giving, Double Meaning

A Jazz man should be saying what he feels: humor, sadness, joy... all the things that humans have.

- Bob Brookmeyer

topic: Music, Sadness, Men

The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

- Bob Marley

topic: Life, Sadness, Today, Jamaican Music, Rasta

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

- Bob Marley

topic: Life, Music, Sadness, Hungry Eyes, Jamaican Music

Deep in my soul, I've been so lonely, all of my hopes fading away. I've longed for love, like everyone else does, I know I'll keep searching after today.

- Bob Seger

topic: Lonely, Sadness, Soul, Fading Away, So Lonely

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.

- Boethius

topic: Sadness, Thinking, Miserable

February. Get ink, shed tears. Write of it, sob your heart out, sing, While torrential slush that roars Burns in the blackness of the spring. Go hire a buggy. For six grivnas, Race through the noice of bells and wheels To where the ink and all you grieving Are muffled when the rainshower falls. To where, like pears burnt black as charcoal, A myriad rooks, plucked from the trees, Fall down into the puddles, hurl Dry sadness deep into the eyes. Below, the wet black earth shows through, With sudden cries the wind is pitted, The more haphazard, the more true The poetry that sobs its heart out.

- Boris Pasternak

topic: Spring, Fall, Sadness, Pears, Slush

I'm sorry if I took some things for granted, I'm sorry for the chains I put on you. But more than anything, I'm sorry for myself for living without you.

- Brenda Lee

topic: Sorry, Sadness, Granted

O Jesus! Remember the sadness that Thou didst experience when, contemplating in the light of Thy divinity the predestination of those who would be saved by the merits of Thy sacred passion, thou didst see at the same time the great multitude of reprobates who would be damned for their sins, and Thou didst complain bitterly of those hopeless, lost, and unfortunate sinners.

- Brigit of Kildare

topic: Jesus, Passion, Sadness, Predestination

You can't shut off the risk and the pain without losing the love that remains.

- Bruce Springsteen

topic: Pain, Sadness, Risk

When your world has shattered, ain't nothing else matters. It ain't over, it's only love and that's all.

- Bryan Adams

topic: Sadness, World, Matter

If you think being dysfuncted and damaged, strapped to your baggage, dirty, ruined and hurt like critical, cynical, scathing, if you're lost or have come up missing, scarred and scared (or pretending you aren't), when you think that's all you've got, it's not. The sadness you wear around like a trophy is intriguing at most, but it's miserable, and about as original as a frat boy with a visor cap. So step up.

- Buddy Wakefield

topic: Hurt, Dirty, Sadness

If your beliefs are stressful and you question them, you come to see that they aren't true - whereas prior to questioning, you absolutely believe them. How can you live in joy when you're believing thoughts that bring on sadness, frustration, anger, alienation, and loneliness?

- Byron Katie

topic: Loneliness, Believe, Sadness

I've heard people say that they cling to their painful thoughts because they're afraid that without them they wouldn't be activists for peace. “If I feel peaceful,” they say, “why would I bother taking action at all?” My answer is “Because that's what love does.” To think that we need sadness or outrage to motivate us to do what's right is insane. As if the clearer and happier you get, the less kind you become. As if when someone finds freedom, she just sits around all day with drool running down her chin. My experience is the opposite. Love is action.

- Byron Katie

topic: Running, Sadness, Thinking, Katie, Painful Thoughts

All sadness is a tantrum.

- Byron Katie

topic: Sadness, Tantrums

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Life, Grief, Sadness, Live Each Day, Keeping A Journal

All the sorrow, all the bitterness, all the sadness, I forget them and ignore them in the joy of working.

- Camille Pissarro

topic: Passion, Sadness, Joy

The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced and contrasted and compared to sadness. In comparing how an experience could have been worse we develop gratitude and happiness, while if we compare it how it could have been better we develop bitterness and sadness.

- Carl Jung

topic: Gratitude, Sadness, Bitterness, Could Have Been

"Only if one loves this earth with unbending passion can one relieve one's sadness," don Juan said. "Warriors are always joyful because their love is unalterable and their beloved, the earth, embraces them and bestows upon them inconceivable gifts. The sadness belongs only to those who hate the very thing that gives shelter to their beings." Don Juan again caressed the ground with tenderness. "This lovely being, which is alive to its last recesses and understands every feeling, soothed me, it cured me of my pains, and finally when I had fully understood my love for it, it taught me freedom."

- Carlos Castaneda

topic: Pain, Hate, Sadness, Recess

I haven't got time for the pain.

- Carly Simon

source: Song: Haven't Got Time For The Pain, Album: Hotcakes, 1974

topic: Pain, Sadness

Oh, September! It is so soon for you to lose your friends to good work and strange loves and high ambitions. The sadness of that is too grown-up for you. Like whiskey and voting, it is a dangerous and heady business, as heavy as years. If I could keep your little tribe together forever, I would. I do so want to be generous. But some stories sprout bright vines that tendril off beyond our sight, carrying the folk we love best with them, and if I knew how to accept that with grace, I would share the secret.

- Catherynne M. Valente

topic: Ambition, Sadness, Sight, Together Forever, High Ambition

We all get lost once in a while, sometimes by choice, sometimes due to forces beyond our control. When we learn what it is our soul needs to learn, the path presents itself. Sometimes we see the way out but wander further and deeper despite ourselves; the fear, the anger or the sadness preventing us returning. Sometimes we prefer to be lost and wandering, sometimes it's easier. Sometimes we find our own way out. But regardless, always, we are found.

- Cecelia Ahern

topic: Believe, Sadness, Choices

Christian children all must be Mild, obedient, good as He. . . . . For He is our childhood's pattern, Day by day like us He grew, He was little, weak, and helpless, Tears and smiles like us He knew; And He feeleth for our sadness, And He shareth in our gladness.

- Cecil Frances Alexander

topic: Christian, Children, Sadness

I'm fairly certain that, at this very minute, the [Mars Polar Lander] is floating somewhere around the Neptune feeling tired and cranky and looking for a Holiday Inn.Of course, you'd have to have a heart of titanium not to feel a twinge of sadness while watching those dejected NASA scientiest waiting by the phone like the class wallflower on prom week.On the other hand, it was kind of fun to watch a bunch of men waiting by the phone and seeing how they feel when someone promises they'll call and then YOU NEVER HEAR FROM HIM AGAIN.

- Celia Rivenbark

topic: Fun, Holiday, Sadness, Cranky, Dejected

I felt like crying but nothing came out. it was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can't feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. but I think I have known it pretty often, too often.

- Charles Bukowski

topic: Sadness, Thinking, Sick

Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can't vent any anger against them. I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere, in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence. They were only taught to look one way when many ways exist.

- Charles Bukowski

topic: Real, Sadness, Inability, Actuality

Come to earth to taste our sadness, He whose glories knew no end. By His life He brings us gladness, our Redeemer, Shepherd, Friend. Leaving riches without number, born within a cattle stall. This, the everlasting wonder, Christ was born the Lord of all.

- Charles Wesley

topic: Christmas, Meaningful, Sadness, Redeemer, Gladness

Hold the sadness and pain of samsara in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern Sun. Then the warrior can make a proper cup of tea.

- Chogyam Trungpa

topic: Pain, Heart, Sadness, Samsara

Successful prime-time television of any genre produces some kind of emotional reaction in the viewers. There are a lot of different emotions to tap into. The emotion of the reward of discovery, the feeling of righteous anger, the feelings of pathos and sadness, or sentimentality of being moved by something.

- Chris Hayes

topic: Sadness, Successful, Emotional, Different Emotions, Prime Time

Save your tears, you've got years.

- Chris Rea

source: Song: Fool If You Think It's Over, 1978

topic: Sadness, Years, Tears

I often make movies that involve depression or deep holes of sadness, although there are also these other great things in 'New Moon,' like this epic set-piece at the end of the film in Italy.

- Chris Weitz

topic: Sadness, Epic, Moon

Though sad at heart, to sing joyfully.

- Christine de Pizan

topic: Heart, Sadness

Isolation of the caretaker role is a real danger. That way lies sadness.

- Christopher Noxon

source: "Interview with a Plus One". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. February 13, 2015.

topic: Lying, Real, Sadness, Caretakers

When you're an addict, you can go without feeling anything except drunk or stoned or hungry. Still, when you compare this to other feelings, to sadness, anger, fear, worry, despair, and depression, well, an addiction no longer looks so bad. It looks like a very viable option.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Sadness, Worry, Addiction

Time heals many wounds but this loss becomes the defining sadness of your life.

- Claire Cook

topic: Grief, Sadness, Loss, His Loss

I want the following word: splendor, splendor is fruit in all its succulence, fruit without sadness. I want vast distances. My savage intuition of myself.

- Clarice Lispector

topic: Distance, Sadness, Intuition

And even sadness was also something for rich people, for people who could afford it, for people who didn't have anything better to do. Sadness was a luxury.

- Clarice Lispector

topic: Sadness, Luxury, People

this is one of my absolute favourite quotes its from the evernight series (stargazer) charity to Balthazar You remind me of too much. you remind me of what it felt like to be alive, to think of sunlight as something you could enjoy instead of something you could bare, to breath and have it change you, refresh you, awaken you, instead of just churning on and on some old useless habit that taunts you with what you use to be, to sigh and feel relief, to cry and let your sadness pass, instead of having it all bottled up inside of you forever and ever until you don't know who you are any more.

- Claudia Gray

topic: Sadness, Thinking, Forever, Taunting, Churning

Once there had been joy, but now there was only sadness, and it was not, he knew, alone the sadness of an empty house; it was the sadness of all else, the sadness of the Earth, the sadness of the failures and the empty triumphs.

- Clifford D. Simak

source: Clifford D. Simak (2015). “City”, p.207, Open Road Media

topic: Sadness, House, Joy, Empty Houses

Pain could be killed. Sadness could not, but the drugs did shut its mouth for a time.

- Colson Whitehead

topic: Pain, Sadness, Drug

Each leaf that brushed his face deepened his sadness and dread. Each leaf he passed he'd never pass again. They rode over his face like veils, already some yellow, their veins like slender bones where the sun shone through them. He had resolved himself to ride on for he could not turn back and the world that day was as lovely as any day that ever was and he was riding to his death.

- Cormac McCarthy

topic: Sadness, Yellow, Lovely, Slender

The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.

- Cornelius Nepos

topic: Sadness, Wish, Misery, Leadership By Famous Leaders

Sorry means you feel the pulse of other people's pain as well as your own, and saying it means you take a share of it. And so it binds us together, makes us trodden and sodden as one another. Sorry is a lot of things. It's a hole refilled. A debt repaid. Sorry is the wake of misdeed. It's the crippling ripple of consequence. Sorry is sadness, just as knowing is sadness. Sorry is sometimes self-pity. But Sorry, really, is not about you. It's theirs to take or leave.

- Craig Silvey

topic: Sorry, Pain, Sadness, Misdeeds

If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another. If you wish to know that you are safe, cause another to know that they are safe. If you wish to better understand seemingly incomprehensible things, help another to better understand. If you wish to heal your own sadness or anger, seek to heal the sadness or anger of another.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Sadness, Meditation, Wish

If you wish to heal your own sadness or anger, seek to heal the sadness or anger of another. Those others are waiting for you now. They are looking to you for guidance, for help, for courage, for strength, for understanding, and for assurance at this hour. Most of all, they are looking to you for love.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Sadness, Waiting, Understanding

Love tought me to cry. So come on courage, teach me to be shy.

- Damien Rice

topic: Sadness, Shy, Cry

This sadness wasn't a huge part of me--I wasn't remotely depressed--but still, it was like a stone I carried in my pocket. I always knew it was there. [p. 179]

- Dani Shapiro

topic: Sadness, Pockets, Stones

The anterior cingulate fires up as the end result of a series of events. First, estrogen levels fall. Meanwhile, serotonin, the feel-good neurotransmitter, also decreases. The deficiency in serotonin causes the anterior cingulate gyrus to fire up. To make things worse, just about this time the PFC tends to quiet down, which is why women may have a hard time focusing and controlling impulses. So we see emotional difficulties, intensified feelings of sadness, and disturbed sleep.

- Daniel Amen

topic: Fall, Sadness, Sleep, Estrogen, Neurotransmitters

It is always sad when someone leaves home, unless they are simply going around the corner and will return in a few minutes with ice-cream sandwiches.

- Daniel Handler

source: "Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid". Book by Daniel Handler, 2007.

topic: Home, Sadness, Ice Cream

Music should use everything. The sadness of life and the fun of life. Anything that provokes a sound that is exciting is good.

- Daniel Humair

topic: Fun, Sadness, Sound

Mood evidently affects the operation of System 1: when we are uncomfortable and unhappy, we lose touch with our intuition. These findings add to the growing evidence that good mood, intuition, creativity, gullibility, and increased reliance on System 1 form a cluster. At the other pole, sadness, vigilance, suspicion, an analytic approach, and increased effort also go together. A happy mood loosens the control of System 2 over performance: when in a good mood, people become more intuitive and more creative but also less vigilant and more prone to logical errors.

- Daniel Kahneman

topic: Sadness, Creativity, Errors, Gullibility, Vigilant

The drive to Black Rock City from San Francisco leads through the Nevada flatlands, past the jittering neon sadness of Reno.

- Daniel Pinchbeck

topic: Sadness, Past, Rocks, Nevada

37 is a lumpy number, a bit like porridge. Six is very small and dark and cold, and whenever I was little trying to understand what sadness is I would imagine myself inside a number six and having that experience of cold and darkness. Similarly, number four is a shy number.

- Daniel Tammet

topic: Sadness, Dark, Numbers, Porridge

Gail had a baby named Ned who was four months old, and a new look of baffled hurt, a left-behind sadness, like she saw that the great world kept spinning onward and away while she'd overnight become glued to her spot.

- Daniel Woodrell

source: Daniel Woodrell (2012). “Winter's Bone”, p.25, Hachette UK

topic: Baby, Hurt, Sadness, Gail, New Look

No sadness is greater than in misery to rehearse memories of joy.

- Dante Alighieri

topic: Memories, Sadness, Joy

He was like someone sleeping who woke suddenly and found the world...all the beauty of it, and the sadness too. The hunger and the thirst. Everything he had never thought about or known was there before him, and magnified into one person who by chance, or fate--call it what you will--happened to be me.

- Daphne du Maurier

topic: Sadness, Sleep, Fate

Why won't you run in the rain and play, let the tears splash all over you?

- Dave Matthews

topic: Running, Rain, Sadness

In my heart, there was joy mixed with sadness: joy that the nations atlast acknowledged that we are a nation with a state, and sadness that we lost half of the country, Judea and Samaria, and , in addition, that we [would] have[in our state] 400,000 [Palestinian] Arabs.

- David

topic: Country, Heart, Sadness

Real sadness is such an all-encompassing intense thing that it takes you out of your humdrum existence. If you can still function, you want to show it while it's peaking. So when people tell you to cheer up, it's not always the best thing.

- David Byrne

topic: Cheer, Real, Sadness, Humdrum, Peaking

One leaf left on a branch and not a sound of sadness or despair. One leaf left on a branch and no unhappiness. One leaf left all by itself in the air and it does not speak of loneliness or death. One leaf and it spends itself in swaying mildly in the breeze.

- David Ignatow

source: David Ignatow (2011). “Against the Evidence: Selected Poems, 1934–1994”, p.124, Wesleyan University Press

topic: Loneliness, Sadness, Air, Swaying

There's no way for them to take away my sadness, but they can make sure I am not empty of all the other feelings.

- David Levithan

topic: Sadness, Feelings, Way

She is so lost in her sadness that she has no idea how visible it is.

- David Levithan

source: David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.9, Egmont UK

topic: Sadness, Ideas, Lost

I can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain.

- David Levithan

topic: Beautiful, Sadness, Clay, Porcelain

There is nothing so cleansing or reassuring as a vicarious sadness.

- David Rakoff

source: David Rakoff (2010). “Half Empty”, p.198, Anchor

topic: Sadness, Cleansing, Reassuring, Vicarious

It's strange how sometimes you can be so happy it goes all the way round to sadness.

- David Walliams

topic: Sadness, Way, Strange

The measure of human character is our reaction to dark times. No one can sidestep darkness. It is the throne upon which light sits. If a soul has not known sadness and struggle, there is no chance of overcoming, no cherishing the dawn.

- David Wolpe

topic: Struggle, Character, Sadness, Dark Times

Somewhere there's a someone for me. Though I may be lonely now, I'll see it through somehow, to somebody's heart I know I hold the key.

- Dean Martin

topic: Lonely, Heart, Sadness

And happiness is always louder than sadness.

- Deborah Harkness

source: Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.403, Penguin

topic: Sadness

Passively accepting your sadness is the same as forgetting to build your own happiness. Happiness is more than a mood. It's a long-lasting state that is more accurately called well-being.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Sadness, Long, Forget, Long Lasting

I can't set my hopes too high, 'Cause every hello ends with a goodbye.

- Demi Lovato

topic: Goodbye, Sadness, Causes, Catch Me

Happiness comes in moments, & then it's gone until the next time. Could be years. But sadness settles it.

- Dennis Lehane

topic: Sadness, Years, Gone

The pleasure and sadness of youth is that the speed of its passing is never thought about; and so you say that you will do this or that in a year, in five years, only to wake up one morning to realize that what you thought was infinitely prolonged has ended.

- Derek Tangye

source: "The Way to Minack". Book by Derek Tangye, 1968.

topic: Morning, Sadness, Years, Five Years

Suffering accepted and vanquished. . . . will give you a serenity which may well prove the most exquisite fruit of your life.

- Desire-Joseph Mercier

topic: Sadness, Giving, Serenity

Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.

- Dionne Warwick

topic: Sadness, Feeling Sad, Tears, Joy And Sadness, Deep Sadness

What can be considered human emotions? Surely not only lyricism, sadness, tragedy? Doesn't laughter also have a claim to that lofty title? I want to fight for the legitimate right of laughter in serious music.

- Dmitri Shostakovich

source: "Sovetskoye Iskusstvo", quoted in "Shostakovich: A Life", transl. by Laurel Fay (2000) p. 77, November 5, 1934.

topic: Laughter, Sadness, Fighting

They say that time heals a broken heart, but time has stood still since we've been apart.

- Don Gibson

topic: Heart, Sadness, Broken, Heal A Broken Heart

You're going to be buying your ticket with your heartache, you're gonna be payin' the man with your dues. You're gonna be living alone when you hear that whistle moan, you're gonna be learnin' to live with the blues.

- Don McLean

topic: Sadness, Men, Heartache, Living Alone

Be of good cheer, for sadness cannot heal the national wounds.

- Dorothea Dix

topic: Cheer, Sadness, Heal

Therefore, we know about God that He loves and shows pity on His creatures, and also that He is the source of wisdom and knows how to govern everything concerning us. Nothing is impossible for Him, but everything is subject to His will. We must also realize that everything He does is for our benefit and we must accept it with thankfulness...as from a benefactor and a good lord even if is troublesome. For everything is done with right judgment, and God, Who is merciful, does not overlook even the smallest sadness that we suffer.

- Dorotheus of Gaza

topic: Sadness, Words Of Wisdom, Suffering, Benefactors

I give her sadness and the gift of pain, a new moon madness and a love of rain.

- Dorothy Parker

topic: Pain, Rain, Sadness

Cry for the soul that will not face the body as an equal place.

- Dory Previn

source: Song: Mythical Kings And Iguanas

topic: Sadness, Soul, Body

And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.

- Douglas Coupland

topic: Life, Depression, Sadness

You see, when you're middle class, you have to live with the fact that history will ignore you. You have to live with the fact that history can never champion your causes and that history will never feel sorry for you. It is the price that is paid for day-to-day comfort and silence. And because of this price, all happinesses are sterile; all sadnesses go unpitied.

- Douglas Coupland

topic: Sorry, Sadness, Class, Feel Sorry For You

Sometimes I think God is like weather - you may not like the weather, but it has nothing to do with you. You just happen to be there. Deal with it. Sadness and grief are part of being human and always will be.

- Douglas Coupland

topic: Grief, Sadness, Thinking

In all of our days our lives are always changing, tears come along as well as smiles... May you have rainbows after every storm, may you have hopes to keep you warm. And may you always have an angel by your side.

- Douglas Pagels

topic: Sadness, Angel, Your Side, Aspects Of Life, Life Is Great

I actually think sadness and darkness can be very beautiful and healing.

- Duncan Sheik

topic: Beautiful, Healing, Sadness

The Atonement is an event that enables us to be reconciled to God. The word atonement, or 'at-one-ment,' means to restore or to come back. In terms of family, it means to be reunited with one another and with God and His Son, Jesus Christ. It means sadness through separation will become happiness through reuniting.

- Earl C. Tingey

topic: Jesus, Sadness, Mean, Reunited, Reuniting

All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry - all forms of fear - are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence.

- Eckhart Tolle

source: Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.61, New World Library

topic: Regret, Stress, Sadness, Stress And Anxiety, Stress And Worry

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Sadness, Boredom, Feeling Sad, Stillness Speaks, Human Mind

Guilt, regret, resentment, sadness & all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past & not enough presence.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Regret, Sadness, Past

the moods of sadness that come over anyone who takes up art... these dismal moods have very little compensation.

- Edgar Degas

topic: Art, Sadness, Littles

This is Darrow, Inadequately scrawled, with his young, old heart, And his drawl, and his infinite paradox And his sadness, and kindness, And his artist sense that drives him to shape his life To something harmonious, even against the schemes of God.

- Edgar Lee Masters

topic: Kindness, Heart, Sadness

When I'm all alone, nobody else can say goodbye.

- Edie Brickell

topic: Goodbye, Sadness, Saying Goodbye

Life is too tragic for sadness: Let us rejoice.

- Edward Abbey

topic: Sadness, Life Is, Tragic

Grief alone can teach us what is man.

- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

topic: Grief, Sadness, Men

Beware of parting! The true sadness is not in the pain of the parting; it is in the when and the how you are to meet again with the face about to vanish from your view.

- Edward George, Baron George

source: "What Will He Do with It?". Book by Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1857.

topic: Pain, Sadness, Views, Parting

Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.

- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

topic: Laughter, Sadness, Men, Brooches, Do Not Judge

Some people habitually wear sadness, like a garment, and think it a becoming grace. God loves a cheerful worshipper.

- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

topic: Sadness, Thinking, People

I don't know whether there is anyone else at all who remembers my noble father with such sadness

- Egon Schiele

topic: Father, Sadness, Noble

Personally, I didn't think there was anything wrong with sadness. Just the opposite – hypocrisy made people happy and truth made them sad.

- Elif Safak

topic: Sadness, Thinking, Opposites

Gradually, everything that happens in the world is coming to be of interest everywhere in the world, and, gradually, thoughtful men and women everywhere are sitting in judgment upon the conduct of all nations.

- Elihu Root

source: Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

topic: Sadness, Thoughtful, Men

Sadness, joy, wonder - all feelings come from a place of grounded strength that comes from trust in yourself. We spend so much time trying to control our feelings out of fear that something may happen, that somebody may not love us, or walk away or die. It's only when you stop living in that fear of what other people might do to you or how they will react, only then are you free to be alive.

- Elisabeth Shue

topic: Sadness, People, Joy

It is a sadness of growing older that some of us lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult.

- Elizabeth Aston

topic: Appreciation, Sadness, Different

A broken heart is not the same as sadness. Sadness occurs when the heart is stone cold and lifeless. On the contrary, there is an unbelievable amount of vitality in a broken heart.

- Elizabeth Lesser

topic: Heart, Sadness, Broken, Stone Cold

That's the thing I want to make clear about depression: It's got nothing at all to do with life. In the course of life, there is sadness and pain and sorrow, all of which, in their right time and season, are normal-unpleasant, but normal. Depression is an altogether different zone because it involves a complete absence: absence of affect, absence of feeling, absence of response, absence of interest. The pain you feel in the course of a major clinical depression is an attempt on nature's part (nature, after all, abhors a vacuum) to fill up the empty space.

- Elizabeth Wurtzel

source: Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Pain, Sadness, Space, Pain And Sorrow, Clinical Depression

The measure of our mindfulness, the touchstone for sanity in this society, is our level of productivity, our attention to responsibility, our ability to plain and simple hold down a job. If you're still at the point when you're even just barely going through the motions--showing up at work, paying the bills--you are still okay or okay enough. A desire not to acknowledge sadness in ourselves or those close to us--better known these days as denial, is such a strong urge that plenty of people prefer to think that until you are actually flying out of a window, you don't have a problem.

- Elizabeth Wurtzel

topic: Strong, Jobs, Sadness, Touchstones, Plain And Simple

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough.

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

topic: Sadness, World, Woe